Hindi Khabar

Roger Federer fitness key to Davis Cup final

The Swiss have never won the Davis Cup in its long history, while France have won the team trophy nine times, the last coming away to Australia in 2001.

Federer is a 17-time Grand Slam winner and currently ranked second in the world, while this year’s Australian Open champion Wawrinka is ranked fourth.

Logically they are the hot favourites — but a dramatic weekend in London at the season-ending…

Saina, Srikanth rise in Badminton World Federation rankings

While Olympic bronze medallist Saina jumped a place to No 4 in women’s singles, Srikanth, who defeated two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan in the final on Sunday, made a leap of six places in the men’s singles rankings to be positioned at No 10, his highest ever ranking.

Based on consistent performances in recent tournaments, HS Prannoy also made a rise of three places to be ranked No 24, his best…

Sensex, Nifty retreat after hitting new peaks on profit-taking

Fall in metal, power, refinery, realty, banking and auto stocks mainly weighed on market sentiment after the BSE Sensex hit new lifetime high of 28,294.01 and NSE Nifty logged fresh peak of 8,455.65 on intra-day basis.

This is the second day indices have closed with a loss after hitting new highs. The local currency also appeared to be having a bad session with the rupee trading within a sniffing…

2G case: Court allows CBI plea to summon additional witnesses

“Application is allowed,” Special CBI judge O P Saini said.

The court had on November 11 reserved its order after hearing the arguments on the plea which was opposed by former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others who are facing trial in the case.

While Raja and Kanimozhi had questioned the legality of the CBI plea at the fag end of the trial, some of the other co-accused had…

Secular ideals of Indira Gandhi more relevant today: TMC

“The secular ideals of Indira Gandhi are more important in present day India when communalism is spreading its wings in the country. Indira Gandhi used to treat the minority community as her own children,” State Panchayat Minister and senior TMC leader Subrata Mukherjee said.

Mukherjee, during his days as Youth Congress leader has worked with Indira Gandhi in the 1970s.

“She used to say that if…

Make selection process of UN chief more transparent: India

Highlighting the critical need for revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji said here that the 193-member UN body is the voice of the international community and must be given a greater say in the selection of the UN Secretary-General.

“The continued circumscribing of the Assembly’s role and responsibilities in the…

As nations debated pro and cons of the issue, India neither supported nor opposed it and instead merely read out a joint-bilateral statement on HFCs signed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama during their White House summit on September 30.

When contacted, Indian officials known to the development pointed out that it was done to “clarify” country’s stand after Canada,…

Aligarh Muslim University VC should resign: Uttar Pradesh BJP chief

“AMU VC Zameer Uddin Shah should either resign or else he should be dismissed by the central government,” Bajpai, who was here to attend a two-day conference of BJP workers of this region, told reporters here on Tuesday.

He said Shah’s recent controversial statement on the issue of granting access to undergraduate girl students of women’s college in the university’s central library and later on…

Akhilesh blames centre for power crisis in UP

“We are not getting allocated quota of coal. Do you (BJP members) ensure increase in coal and power quota from the Centre. Wearing saffron clothes doesn’t work. The people are angry with us as we could not provide them adequate power,” Yadav said while replying to a question in Vidhan Sabha.

He also took a dig at Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal for his replies on micro-blogging site ‘Twitter’…

FIIs hike stake in Infosys to 42.67 percent in July-September quarter

However, the exact date of share purchased by foreign institutional investors (FIIs) could not be ascertained.

Infosys new chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director Vishal Sikka took charge of the company in August.

Cumulative FII holdings in the company rose to 42.67 percent in the July-September quarter this year from 39.93 percent in three months ended September last year, according…

Mumbai top investment destinations among UAE based Indians

As many as 35 percent UAE-based Indian expats voted for the city as their favourite property destination in India, in a recently conducted survey.

In the report, published by Sumansa Exhibitions, who also organise the Indian Property Show to be held in Dubai in December. Bangalore grabbed the 2nd spot with 24.13 per cent votes going for it as the most favorite city for NRI property investments.

B…

Modi government paying attention to power-starved eastern states: Piyush Goyal

“We have clear cut instruction from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend all help to eastern states including Bihar to make them self-reliant in the power sector,” Goyal said.

The minister said this before leaving for commercial launch of unit IV of the NTPC Barh Super Thermal Power Plant (STPP) and declare commercial operation of 110 MW unit II of the Muzaffarpur Thermal power station (Stage…

7.3-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia, Tsunami warning issued

The undersea quake struck at a depth of 46 kilometres at 10:31 am (0231 GMT), 154 kilometres northwest of Kota Ternate, the USGS said.

“Tsunami waves are possible for coasts located within 300 kilometres,” said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

The centre said tsunami waves could hit parts of Indonesia, as well the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan and islands in the South Pacific.

Tsunami waves…

Putin put on notice at G20 summit to end Ukraine crisis

Russian President Vladimir Putin is also attending the meeting and the comments clearly flag that he will come under intense diplomatic pressure to change tack on Ukraine.

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said Europe’s foreign ministers will meet on Monday to assess the situation in Ukraine and whether further steps including additional sanctions were needed against Russia.

“Russia…

Namibia to be Africa’s first to use e-voting

Over 1 million voters, or just about half of the nation’s 2.3 million people, are due to vote on November 28. “I think it’s a big achievement for Namibia and the African continent at large,” Nontemba Tjipueja, chairwoman of the Electoral Commission of Namibia said.

She said the voting machines, imported from India, will help improve accuracy, speed up counting, eliminate human interference and…

Adopt common strategy to counter global terror: PM Modi

The call for a common strategy by Modi came during his bilateral meeting with French President Francois Hollande on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

“Success against global terror is within reach if States adopt a common strategy,” Modi told Hollande.

Modi’s remarks came against the backdrop of US Defence Secretary Chuck Haagel’s comments that US-led air war against Islamic State of Iraq and…

UN, aid groups step up pressure on G20 over Ebola

Speaking in Brisbane, where the two-day G20 leaders meeting is being hosted by Australia, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined with international aid agencies in urging concrete actions to fight the disease.

“I would also like to stress the need to intensify the international response to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa,” Ban told reporters.

“As rates decline in one area, they are rising…